the vietnam military history museum is located in the middle of hanoi. visitors can see real tanks and fighter jets from both the north vietnamese and u.s. armed forces. cluster bombs and chemical weapons dropped by the united states are also on display. the museum describes how they killed and maimed vietnamese people. this national museum was set up to record the country's turbulent and military past and the wars it has been through, including the vietnam war. but that conflict is about to be forgotten by people here in rapidly growing hanoi. >> translator: the war ended many years ago. vietnam is now developing. >> translator: the vietnam war is history. our country is growing at a pace to catch up with world powers. >> reporter: as we have reported, people in hanoi and other big cities today rarely feel the lingering impact of the war. but for those in the still poor central region, the site of many hard fought battle the scars remain unhealed. the legacy of agent orange sprayed over forests is particularly harsh. but there's now a substance that hol

the vietnam military history museum is located in the middle of hanoi. visitors can see real tanks and fighter jets from both the north vietnamese and u.s. armed forces. cluster bombs and chemical weapons dropped by the united states are also on display. the museum describes how they killed and maimed vietnamese people. this national mu semiwas set up to record the country's turbulent and military past and the wars it has been through, including the vietnam war. but that conflict is about to be forgotten by people here in rapidly growing hanoi. >> translator: the war ended many years ago. vietnam is now developing. >> translator: the vietnam war is history. our country is growing at a pace to catch up with world powers. >> reporter: as we have reported, people in hanoi and other big cities today rarely feel the lingering impact of the war. but for those in the still poor central region, the site of many hard fought battle the scars remain unhealed. the legacy of agent orange sprayed over forests is particularly harsh. but there's now a substance that hol

every year the vietnam chamber of commerce and the u.s. agency for international development published a list of vietnam's populist nations for investment. and danang has been at the top for three years in a row. it scored particularly well in terms of quality of manpower, transparent access to information and cooperation by public officials. the main charge now will be to remain at the top of the list and continue attracting investors from abroad. >> thank you so very much, akiko. and tomorrow on the second day of our special report, we'll discuss one of the major challenges to the development of central vietnam. and that is finding high quality manpower in the tourism industry. join me then. and that will wrap up our bulletin for today. i'm patchari raksawong reporting from hanoi. >>> wednesday marks one year since a powerful earthquake rocked new zealand. people across the country remember the 185 people who died in the quake. thousands of people gathered at the park in christchurch to remember those who prished. the quake struck during

the average age of vietnam's population is just 27. this young and diligent workforce is a major draw for investors. the vietnamese government has set attracting foreign investment as one of its top priorities. as you can see there, vietnam's economy appears to be booming in the big cities. now, this boom is spreading to central regions that, until now, have been left behind. in 2006, a main road connecting central vietnam with laos and thailand was built, using aid from japan and other countries. it's known as the east/west economic corridor. there's still a lot of red tape that needs to be addressed, but even so, this direct route links vietnam with southeast asia's manufacturing hub in thailand. that gives central vietnam an economic leg up in terms of logistics compared with the north and the south. now the region is seeing more inflows of foreign investment than ever. nhk world reports. >> reporter: one of the most important cities in central vietnam. many foreign companies have their eyes on this old port town. the row of foreign

he was broken on the wheel of vietnam. he had stood down, and quite clearly one argument we had was if the democratic party cannot unite itself, it's fighting in the streets of chicago. this isn't experience unparalleled in mystery. 32 years from now most of americans living today will celebrate a new year that comes once in a thousand years, eight years from now in the second term of the next president we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the american revolution. by this selection we all listening on television and radio, we will determine what kind of nation america will be on its 200th birthday. we will determine what kind of a world america will live in in the year 2000. >> as you know, pat buchanan, every campaign is about the future as much as it is about the past. >> i give the president great credit. he was always looking to the future. he was always talking about the younger generation in the year 2000, and this was the greatest time and place to be alive. i think he really believed that. he had a tremendous

there were vast protests against the vietnam war all over europe. there was a kind of generational divide that opened up in that period that really defined all that went after. i wanted do contextualize things as to the importance of this moment. this was the most important year between the end of world war ii and the fall of communist in 1989. also because this is ancient history to a lot of people, i had a question from one student that i think it would be useful to answer to point up a little bit of what was going on and what hubert humphrey was dealing with at the time. so chris. >> my question is, what was it that made hubert humphrey such an outstanding legislator but an ineffective presidential candidates, especially considering he was running against nixon who already had one failed attempt at the presidency versus jfk? >> chris, to your question we go to mick. >> well, i don't think it's fair to say he was an ineffective presidential candidate. i think in another year he would have been very effective. it was nearly impossible for anybody in

takashimaya will be the first to open a store in vietnam. the department store plans to open its outlet in 2015. it will be located in a large commercial and office complex to be built in ho chi minh city. it will offer western luxury brands as well as clothes and food made by japanese companies. takashimaya is expecting personal spending to grow in vietnam due to a rise in its affluent population. another japanese department store is also considering setting up in the vietnamese market. >>> south korean and singaporean markets are also open this hour. let's take a look at those levels. >> that's the latest in business. back to catherine. >> thanks very much, ai. >>> next we continue our series of special reports from vietnam. patchari raksawong is in the capital of hanoi. >> this week we're reporting on the challenges and opportunities facing central vietnam. we'll have a report on the burgeoning tourism market in just a moment, but first some other news from the region. >>> the trial has begun in manila of the former president of the philip

on the challenges and opportunities facing central vietnam. we'll have a report on the burgeoning tourism market in just a moment. but first, some other news from the region. the trial has begun in manila of the former president of the philippines. she appeared in court on thursday and pleaded not guilty to charges of electoral fraud. she was indicted in november on suspicion of ordering the manipulation of vote counts during a senate election in 2007. the case is viewed as a key test for the government of the president who has made eliminating corruption a priority. and next we continue our special report on central vietnam boosting tourist arrives is a key goal with the central region to catch up with economic development in the rest of vietnam. now it's world heritage sites and ocean view haves the potential to attract visitors from all over the world. here in hanoi, the tourist infrastructure is better established. but as i found out, even here the tourism experience isn't always entirely smooth. hanoi is an historic city with plenty of thi

war, coming home from the vietnam war. he began to raise money then, but until that time he had no tv advertising. the lesson can be learned from that that you especially in day and age of ridiculous money in plans that you need to be prepared and have a plan and have money. part of why he didn't have any of this is because of the '68 convention. he had nobody backing him up. nobody supporting him. the party didn't support him. after coming out of the convention nobody wanted to help him. that's one thing to be learned, that you need to have a plan, and these days you have to have the money. it doesn't seem to work any other way, and it's uncomfort. that's the way it seemed to be. >> the title of your film, the art of the possible, why did you select that? >> because of his legislation.

heroes of the vietnam war. when he read the blog, it kind of chastised me and asked me why i called them heroes. he said the real heroes are the ones on that wall. what's your take on that attitude, mike? the fact that, you know, they don't want any of the credit because as he said the real heroes are the ones on that wall. >> the real heroes -- yes, damian, the ones on the wall are the heroes. the ones that gave their life in the name of freedom. the ones who stepped forward. they enlisted, they got drafted. all ethnic groups. they went forward and fought the war. unfortunately, many didn't survive that war. and never came home. and those are the true heroes. the ones that gave up their tomorrows for our today's. >> jeff is the architect of the project we've been showing you. what made you say i want this? >> there was no hesitation. i was contacted really from mike to -- it's a long story how we had known each other and introduced me to the foundation. and he explained what they were trying to do, and i was mo

enough to kill, but not to vote ♪ >> ♪ all we are saying, is give peace a chance ♪ >>> even in the vietnams, songs raised questions. >> ♪ if you have any debt it takes getting old ♪ too many people have died ♪ >>> we're now in the fifth year of the war in iraq, and if the polls are right, it's more unpopular than the wars in iraq. so why are we not hearing more protests songs. >> you're listening to klax berkeley. >> klax is the university's station in berkeley. this time around there's no draft, but -- >> we're still going to the polls. we're still expressing our disinterest. we're still going to protests. if it isn't in the radio it doesn't mean it's not in our thoughts. >> reporter: this was country joe mcdonald almost 38 years ago leading hundreds of thousands of people at wood stock in an anti war sing along. >> ♪ and it's 57, open up the prairie gates ♪ ain't no time to wonder why we're all going to die ♪ >> and this is country joe today. he told us he thinks there's actually more political music now than ever. especially punk and hip hop. >> ♪ >> but most of it is not on the radio.

the battlefields. it was a living room war. >> vietnam was an abration. the administration wanted to show how you tough america was being on communism. you went out there as a correspondent and you were allowed to go where you wanted to. >> a lot of the reporting from vietnam which was clearly one sided. we saw the horrors of it and so on but did not hear much of what was happening on the other side. >> oliver: at its peak over 600 journalists were covering vietnam. the military invested men and material to record the war. like christopher jensen. >> i was attending photo journalism courses and it occurred to me maybe what i ought to do it enlift in the army. if you enlisted it was three years but the mill tar arery would train you in a specialty that you requested. >> oliver: jensen became one of 300,000 soldiers trained by the signal corps to shoot pictures. the military's role in documenting wars is easy to overlook. much of the film you see of wars past was shot by troops, not independent journalists. >> dominating the main highway to the north. >> one

one has been mentioned but hasn't been discussed in any way that is the vietnam war and reaction to the vietnam war in the late 1960s and late 1970s. that made me more and more aware of the connection between protest movements, the military, and the political context in which both the war and anti-war movement protests against it took place. in other words, the connection to politics and to the military became increasingly a focus of my thinking. i think the climate of the times. and in 1976, textbook publisher approached me and asked me about writing a new textbook to take the place of the old james c. randolph by then randall donald on civil war and reconstruction, perhaps naively and foolishly i agreed to under take that project. that evolved five years later into a college textbook ordeal by fire. at the same time van woodward approached me about writing a volume in the oxford history of the united states, which turned out after first going to be the guilded age reconstruction guilded age volume to be the antebellum and civil war volume and somewhat naively having signed one contrac

the rules. >> what were they going to do send you to vietnam? >> reveal the truth. now a special tribute to marie colt who was killed syria and all war correspondents. >> live from america's news headquarters i am harris falkner. a federal judge delayed the trial against a massive bp oil spill. the worst in the nation's history killed 11 people. more than 200 millions of gallons spilled. they noted there are progress in settlement talks. >> one prominent executive will not be there. brewer says she has a prior allegation. it has been tense since this picture when she was photographed waiving a finger at the commander-in-chief on a tarmac. she said the president scolded her telling her she misrepresented him and misbehavior in his book. arizona immigration laws brewer was absent from tonight's dinner should not be mistaken for disrespect. >> for the first time in the 54 year history the daytona 500 was postponed and move to do another day. disappointed drivers and fans were there. they will have the nascar event tomorrow but there's more rain in the forecast. the u.s

but our concern was keeping the public supportive of us in the vietnam war. so mitchell was really the dominant factor in the straenl that we ended up with of trying to prevent publication my approach to it was that the public was right had they cleared it but they knew we had a rule that you should classify a document, you should clear it and they hadn't done that and that was my argument against it. that was supported some by the courts. >> what was mel laird's issue? >> mel was just very angry about the whole thing because he thought it reflected on him and the department and he wanted to go get them. >> someone in the pentagon later concluded that most of his material was not really of great sensitivity. >> yeah. >> what was the strategy for dealing with leaking? >> well, the person who was most sensitive about it was henry. then the president would get angry and he would share little thing on news notes, write a note on the side to me, why don't you stop talking to these people or just stop talking to them. i took the attitude that i'm independent, i talk

in vietnam and then what happened? it was not enforced. thevietnamese kept troops in south vietnam. once the american troops left, they easily took the rest of the south vietnam and turned out the cong were the puppets, complete fraud and north vietnam took over the whole country. so of course the taliban wants a peace agreement. just like the north vietnamese did. peace agreement to see the american troops leave and then they can exploit it. and defeat -- as join said, the taliban -- as juan said, taliban losing to the nato troops and u.s. troops but they are not losing to karzai and his troops. then they can take over the country in the same way the north vietnamese did years ago. 34 years ago. and you can see it. we have seen this movie. once the american troops are gone, it's all over. to think, one thing i disagree with charles is, maybe you were being fetishes about the good taliban. they all want the same thing. good ones and bad ones. >> you are leaving out pakistan. it will be decisive because it supports the bad guy, as well as some

and very, very good editor, d we didn't always agree on things, and i remember during the vietnam war, we had some disgreements. he supported johnson really the whole way in the war, and i did some sketches and we'd talk aboutthm and he'd tell me what he thought and then he'd generally end up saying, "well, god knows i tried to reason with you. " and ok, you know. >> how long have you been at the post? >> since 1946. >> ecently you were out of commission for a while. >> i was, yes. >> why? >> well, seven or eight years ago, i had some bypss surgery, and the summer i went back for seconds. wasn't bypass surgery, but it was another heart operation, and this was to put in a new valve. they can do these things now, putting in new pipes and all these things. a remarkable surgeon, robert wallace at georgetown university hospital, deboth of them. i saw him recently and told him i had ome back for seconds, and he said yes, but i don't want to see you come back for thirds. >> how long weryou out of commission? >> well, fourmonths, actually. this was not entirely the result of the operation. th

from the world war ii memorials and vietnam war. ions come every year to pay the respects to the veterans fighting in the wars. new, there are plans to pay tribute to the vets who served in iraq and afghanistan. jan screwings is president and founder of the vietnam veteran's memorial fund and joins us new to talk about this. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> are we talking about one memorial, two separate memorials for the two separate wars? give us more details of what your plans and hopes are with. this. >> glad to do so. we're building the education center at the wall at the vietnam veteran's memorial on the grounds of the lincoln memorial. this is about 20,000 square feet of exhibit space. the primary exhibit photographs, photographs of casualties from the vietnam war, but we will now have photographs of the casualties from iraq and afghanistan. and we're looking at exhibits to put there in the facility as well and which is quite well- known as the last flag that just came back from iraq so that is the sort of thing we c

that was indeed in the vietnam era. that was indeed in a time of great strife over the position of the invisible in history. but i think it's been exciting that in the past quarter century especially, and when we look at the anniversary of the american civil war and see the way in which civil war history has been redefined, certainly the scholarship in the field of women's history has gone a far piece from mary massey's bonnet brigade, which was commissioned during the centennial, and i think certainly a fine call for us to walk the battlefields. and there are many battlefields that we need to continue to struggle with, and one of them is to be inclusive of all of those. and there's still, i promise you, great topics on this. i went to northern ireland the year the queen withdrew the troops. so it's a kind of reconstruction in northern ireland. and one of the things i was struck by was the way in which the students i teach american history to have a different question about reconstruction and battles. and they come up wi

coverage starts at 9:30 eastern with tom clavin on the last hours of the vietnam war. followed by karl marlantes and scotty smiley. at 1:30 eastern, jennifer griffin on the changing israeli conflict. toure looks at who is afraid of post- blackness. at 5 lone 15, gwynne on the rise and fall of the apa chess. >>> in 1966 julian bond was prevented from take his elected seat in the georgia state house after state representatives voted 184-12 not seat him due to a stance against the vietnam war. his appeal went to the u.s. supreme court. >> went to the court to hear the argument and i was sitting in the court just behind the bar with the lawyers in front of me. i was sitting next to my lawyers' partner and the attorney general of georgia was making argument that georgia had a right to throw me out because i had said things that were treasonous. and i think it was judge white said to him, he said is this all you have? you came all the way up here and this is all you have. i said to his partner we're winning opinion >> discover more about for example history during black histo

with lieutenant he documented the fight we were soldiers once and young. since vietnam he has stayed close to the battlefield heading back to war over half a dozen times. >> story is always the same. the absolute raw edge of humanity. this is what you are trying to capture. there is no other way to do that than go with them. >> oliver: go with them. dates to the first war correspondent, william howard russell. he found his way to america but this time he was far from alone. >> people could read what happened yesterday rather than what happened two weeks ago. >> oliver: to bring the civil war, 600 reporters converged. one paper spent 63 men into the field and spent almost a million dollars. matthew brady captured the agony of the civil war and sold his pictures directly to an eager public starved for information. photographs didn't be a regular fixture in newspapers until after 1880. photographs like this, they were reporting forever. >> i raised my camera and took the picture. >> oliver: when we return, he describes how his father exposed the lives of a world war i gene

so the thought he'd be so overwhelmed by what the military was telling him about vietnam, the way johnsont seem very likely. we'll never know because there was an election in '64 that affected vietnam. we don't know if kennedy would have responded to a gulf of tonkin incident, on and on and on. but you cannot say that john f. kennedy wasn't looking for a way to get out of that mess. >> i absolutely agree with you. we don't ever know the future when someone has been killed. i absolutely believe based upon his experience in going over to see the french war, opposing the entry of u.s. troops, certainly the use of u.s. firepower, he always knew the issue was nationalism and all the more troops we could put in there would simply increase their nationalism. they would resent us even more the more troops we put in. and that turned out to be the case. >> completely agree. and also keep in mind in connection to our previous -- the comments we had. there was such a thing as you know of new frontiersman. there was something different about jack and bobby kennedy's relationship to the military than,

and there is a very good chapter in the book on vietnam by gordon gould steam. richard started off in his career as a public servant with trying to make something salvage something and succeeding in salvaging something working with people like that on the policy that had gone quite wrong. and that is in a way what he did at the end of his career as well. and what that says is among other things he had absolute confidence she didn't like the sort of very much american exhibition was some and the degree to which american foreign policy can, advancing values and advancing interest and we are uniquely in the position to lead in the world, but things can still go very, very wrong. and he was constantly -- if he were not such a robustly good humored and optimistic person i'd say she almost had a tragic sense about what it means to lead the world particularly in these changing circumstances. the last thing i would say that takes us back to the business that this store is in and all of you are in because you are here as readers come he was the reader, big-time. i can n

kennedy, civil rights, the vietnam war, remember the age when the senate was great. and these are the senators ira is talking about when he talks about the great senate. humphrey, dirksen, gentleman javits, sam irwin, full bright, bird, ted kent, robert kennedy, wayne moss, henry jackson, albert gore, edmund musky, warren magnus sin. robert dole, frank church. john sherman-cooper, eugene mccarthy. margaret k smith, birch bayh and that's quite a cast of characters and those are names that many older americans remember today. of those names, which names pop out to you, and which have impressed you the most? >> let me say first in full disclosure, the narrative of the book focuses on the last years of the great senate, the late '70s, and then -- but the book is backlit by what happened before. my basic argument is that there was a great senate from the earl '60s through the '70s, so all those people you indicated are part of that. the ones that stand out most prominently in my memory would include hubert humphrey, who was perhaps one of the greatest senators of all time

that was one of the problems with the body count issue in vietnam. after a while we began think what we're here for is to rack up the body count. we're supposed to kill more people. that seemed meaningless to me. i think it was meaningless. and i think it was also a really dumb tactic. had we been back protecting the villages not only would we have shift the odds 3 to 1 against you and on the defense 3 to 1 against the other side but the score should have been racked up like how many -- how many murders did we save in these villages by protecting the people in these villages as opposed to how many people did we kill leaving the villages behind and going out to the mountains to find the enemy so it was wrong tactical point. if you kill a million of us we're still going to be here fighting you. and as i point out people, when people talk about kill ratios well, we killed 15 of them and only 1 of us what did the american people focus on, 1. they didn't care about the other 15. they care about the number here. so it's a bad political strategy as well. and

the white house. we'll take a look at that plus a vietnam war memorial. the sons of san jose. this is "comunidad del valle." ♪ >>> we begin with the white house summit on hispanic issues. they are traveling across the country. they were in the south bay just recently. the committee helped bring this. with us is patricia. welcome to the show. this was a big deal in bringing the white house to the south bay. tell us how big it was. >> it was huge. it was wonderful because it brought the community out and we were able to understand what the programs are from the white house. more than that we really got the sense that they want to know from the community, the people on the street, what it is that we need, what the issues are. and they were requesting feedback on very important issues, health, education, voters, housing, many topics were discussed, global commerce. not only were they identifying leaders and people in the trenches doing work on the community but they were inviting us to give our opinions and coming back to us after the fact with events that we are bringing into man

i think the president generally was concerned about a war-time accent during the vietnam war. and my observation was that the way the two of them worked was that the strategist was richard

generals so and by the way one of the things notable is these generals all joined the army after the vietnam war these are the late seventy generals they have no memory of the the vietnamese to be. so what we have here generals who have refused to learn from the past and are now repeating it and that's why we're seeing what we do do you think that congress is actually going to be able to go after these generals is there any will there you know. down there is also calls for congressional hearings to call these guys out right to make this more of a public discussion started sas not going to happen yes i got a call on friday from one of the congressman engel notifying me of the intent to do hearings and in addition another congressman come aboard frank wolf who is a very well thought of conservative republican who now is calling for a full investigation of this frank wolf by the way was one of the first congressman to believe me on able danger back in two thousand and five when i have great confidence and congressman will based on my experience with him once he gets involved as a mainstream rep

>> larry's vietnam holdings, you know, the take on larry as a businessman was with the exception of dhl that he was always 20 years ahead of his time. so he got into vietnam very early, and he wanted to. he wanted to be the first, and i think he really kind of got off on the fact that he was getting there in the trunk of a car, and he set up this holding company to disguise his ownership, and he was there, and the state department was going crazy about it, but he was going to outsmart them. you know, it became this sort of cat and mouse thing with larry. the great thing is it allowed him to buy some incredible properties in vietnam that some people say will never be purchased again. they're just incredible. the bad thing is he was 20 years ahead of hi r -- his time, so you had hotels he built where people in vietnam couldn't stay in them, they weren't allowed to stay, because they were scared they would try and cook in their rooms or do things that were fine in the local culture, but you couldn't have people, like, cooking in their $300 room at the palace hotel. so the assets did not do

>> some are comparing the haditha killings to the vietnam massacre at my lai. >> narrator: haditha ledthe news for weeks and soon became synonymous with other outrages in the iraq war, like abu ghraib. >> haditha, in my judgment, is a metaphor for how the press unconsciously, being in opposition to a war, will take an incident and, simply by reiterating it and reiterating it and reiterating it, build it into something that it wasn't. >> we're supposed to be fighting this war for democracy, and yet something like this happens that sets us back. it's as bad as abu ghraib, if not worse. >> obviously the allegations are very troubling for me. >> narrator: as political pressure mounted that summer, the ncis issued its internal report. >> the ncis report, which is thousands of pages long, came back with recommendations for the command that there were crimes committed. >> narrator: at the same time an independent army investigation looked into the actions of senior officers. >> what they found was that there was a pervasive feeling from the unit on the ground all the way up to the top levels

republican almost half a sent reare you moved from the vietnam war, veterans have never forgotten themhe flair and charm that characterized this time, he stopped off with members of the group to visit aging vets. [music] on a makeshift stage, everyday cafeteria, the 7 time grammy winner and group turned back the clock for adoring crowd. >> from early 60s, kennedy, on up through 70. the motown legend said the respect goes both ways. jeff hager, abc 2 news. >>> temptations review featuring dennis edwards will perform at the symphony hall tomorrow. tickets disappeared early but have been fetching $50 or more on line. >>> today many people were in line at maxes tap house in fells point for the kickoff of bell gin beer fest. the most in the entire country and going to have 275 beers in bottles. i've been coming 8 years in a row. every year it's more and more production. >> they will be greeted with a 9-liter bottle of beer. each person gets a small sample for free, while it losts and enjoy a free belgian style breakfast buffet. >> people from around the world come to enjoy it. it runs throu